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In the King James Version of the Bible, the text reads: And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men. The World English Bible translates the passage as: He said to them, "Come after me, and I will make you fishers for men." For a collection of other versions see BibleHub Matthew 4:19.
Two brother fishermen, Simon called Peter and Andrew, were casting a net into the Sea of Galilee. As he commenced his preaching ministry, Jesus called them to follow him and told them that in doing so they were to become "fishers of men". The phrase is mentioned in Matthew 4:19 and Mark 1:17. Matthew's version states: He said to them, "Follow me,
Matthew 4:20 is the twentieth verse of the fourth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament. Jesus has just begun preaching in Galilee and has encountered the fishermen Simon Peter and Andrew. He has called them to follow him as "fishers of men", and in this verse the pair take up his offer.
St. Ambrose translates this verse with "make them live," as if Christ had said, “Fishermen take fishes for death, that they may kill them, but thou, O Peter, shalt catch men unto life, that they may begin a new life, and live unto God in holiness.” [11]
Matthew Poole, in his Annotations on the Holy Bible, stressed that "Luke denies not that Andrew was there". [ 19 ] The Gospel of John states that Andrew was a disciple of John the Baptist , whose testimony first led him, and another unnamed disciple of John the Baptist, traditionally believed to be John the Apostle , to follow Jesus and spend ...
Jerome: "In fulfilment of that prophecy of Jeremiah who said, I will send unto you many fishers, (Jer. 6:16.) when Peter and Andrew, James and John, heard the words, Follow me, I will make you fishers of men, they put together a net for themselves formed of the Old and New Testaments, and cast it into the sea of this world, and that remains ...
The sea is the world; the fish are the men living in the world. The bark is the Church; the helmsman is Peter (and his successors). He steers the bark, and with the help of his companions (the Apostles, and after them the Bishops), casts his net by preaching the doctrine of Christ, and by holy Baptism receives into the Church those who will ...
Matthew 4 is the fourth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament of Christian Bible. [1] [2] Many translations of the gospel and biblical commentaries separate the first section of chapter 4 (verses 1-11, Matthew's account of the Temptation of Christ by the devil) from the remaining sections, which deal with Jesus' first public preaching and the gathering of his first disciples.